On the shelves
The following books are available at:
Clovis-Carver Public Library
Video Bread comprises a set of eight DVDs offering a complete cooking class with detailed instructions on how to make bread with or without a bread machine, including muffins, pizza, sticky buns, pretzels, sourdough, sweet rolls, and more.
The End of the Road by Sue Henry finds Maxie McNabb and her dog Stretch settling in to enjoy the approaching winter in Homer, Alaska, but her peaceful plans are derailed when an engaging drifter apparently commits suicide at a local motel, and Maxie believes that he was murdered.
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system and examines the international models that could work at home as we set out to cure a health care system that has failed us.
No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara ends an historical trilogy with a story about the young GIs who unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler’s crimes as they sweep through the German countryside and absorb firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel describes the biggest government financial intervention in more than half a century under the Federal Reserve, a department that effectively became the fourth branch of government, with no direct accountability to the nation’s voters
The Iacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover as a man is pulled between two nations inventing their modern identities.
Bad Applies: How to Manage Difficult Employees, Encourage Good Ones to Stay, and Boost Productivity by Brette Sember shows managers how to tackle different types of problem employees and their behaviors in order to keep the team productive and to preserve a pleasant and fruitful work environment.
Portales Public libary
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen.
Everyone knows Louisa May Alcott as the author of the beloved children’sbook, Little Women. Many realize that book was largely autobiographical with her life represented by the tomboyish character of Jo. A few may be aware of her father Bronson’s connection to the Transcendentalists, a philosophical and literary group from New England that included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
This companion to the PBS documentary of the same name takes readers beyond these few facts and introduces us to a fascinating woman who was the author of over more then thirty books and many more short stories. Reisen, a clear admirer of Alcott, eagerly chronicles her struggles, triumphs and determination to succeed.
Calamity Jack by Dean and Shannon Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
The team that brought us Rapunzel’s Revenge has once again created an imaginative twist on a popular fairy tale.
This time the focus is on Rapunzel’s sidekick Jack, of beanstalk fame. In this graphic novel version, Jack (along with Rapunzel and her famous braids) must out scheme an evil giant named Blunderboar who from his skyscraper tower is terrorizing the Jack’s hometown.
But, true to his trickster reputation,Jack is up to the challenge! Nathan Hale’s (no relation to Dean and Shannon, who are husband and wife) eye popping illustrations are a dramatic visual companion to the action-filled storyline.
Fans of the first book and other fractured fairy tales will get a kick out of this funny, fast-paced adventure and will be eager for more.
Mirror, Mirror by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse
Asking herself what would happen if we read a poem up instead of down, Singer created a new poetic form called reverso.
When reading a reverso down, it has one meaning. Turn it upside down, and you’ve got a completely different story.
This “two sides of a story” style of poetry is perfectly suited to fairy tales. In “The Sleeping Beauty and the Wide-Awake Prince” the poem read one way tells the princess’s side of things—read the other is the prince’s: “But I have to be sleeping, never partying, never out in the world. It’s no fun being in a fairy tale” vs. “In a fairy tale it’s no fun being out in the world, never partying, never sleeping.” The two poem are placed side by side, like two sides of a mirror, each reflecting a different point of view. This clever, witty collection will tickle and amuse readers of all ages.
